My dear Mrs. Carnegie,



I have been fro quite a long while intending to write you, but in the first place you were away from home, and during the last week or ten days I have been somewhate under the weather and not doing anything except what it was absolutely compulsory for me to do.



Last spring I reorganized the force, which in old days used to make replicas of the Diplodocus at Mr. Carnegie's request, and iam happy to inform you that three of these replicas have been cast from molds that the parts which they lacked at the United States National Museum in Washington, and for which they have asked to have also been cast from our molds, so that one of these day we will be able to send them the material which they request in order to set their specimen upon it feet.  I am perfectly sure, however, from what I have seen of the specimen in Washington that it is not to be compared for perfection with the one which we have in Pittsburgh.



One of the three casts, which I have made, we have mounted in a preliminary way on the steel supports for gift to our Mexican friends.  It has now been dismounted fromt he supporty and my men are engaged in packing the specimen for shipment to Mexico.



I undertook the task of preparing this specimen for Mexico at the solicitation of the Mexican Ambassador, Senor Manuel Tellez, and, after you and our associates in the Corporation had so kindly agreed to supply the funds which were necessary, I wrote to Tellez and asked him to put me in communication with the proper parties